Did anyone else think “Simpsons did it!” during the Pickens subplot?

I mainly know it from that one episode of Seinfeld where Kramer played her assistant.

I’m not really looking forward to Ready Player One but I’m definitely looking forward to the Red Letter Media review of it.

I’ve heard plenty of complaints that were more substantial than “Girls! Yuck!”

I don’t think the the comparison to Frank Miller’s Batman is entirely fair. There was an interesting post about Kirk over on the Avocado just today about what makes him a hero.

The people in the video game were sentient beings. They were just as “real” as the people they were based on. That was the whole point of the episode.

I still don’t get how this weird personality cult formed around Zack Snyder.

I think a TV mini-series about the Trump administration should be sort of like Twin Peaks: A mixture of humor, surrealism, and existential dread.

ENDLESS TRASH!

And I don’t know that I agree that USS Callister skewers fan entitlement. I saw it more as a takedown of nerd revenge fantasies.

A Nicholas Sparks knockoff trying to trick Nicholas Sparks fans into watching it is just hilariously pathetic.

Yes, because having a problem with sweeping generalizations means you can only see black and white.

I don’t think saying “Most fans who disliked TLJ are sexist” is that much fairer than saying “All fans who disliked TLJ are sexist.”

This piece explicitly describes fans who disliked the film as whiny and entitled and then says that “nearly all” of their complaints are rooted in misogyny.

I don’t think it’s a competition.

This episode goes to great lengths to see him treated like shit and he makes a fucking video game for revenge. What a monster.

Most of the criticism I’ve seen of the film has been of things like tone, plot, characterization, and story telling choices the film made. You’re free to disagree with the criticism (I don’t agree with all of it) but I don’t think it’s unreasonable.

And... if the article had said that all criticism of TLJ boiled down to sexism, you might be making a salient point.

I said it was dumb.

“Walsh also didn’t level any sexist or racist criticism at The Last Jedi. Mostly, he was just disappointed on a personal level about the way “legacy characters” were treated. That’s it.”